[92205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [OT] Connexion {Was: Re: [routing-wg]BGP Update Report}
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Sep 10 12:25:46 2006
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:24:52 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: netfortius@gmail.com
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200609100908.57071.netfortius@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:08:56 -0500, Netfortius <netfortius@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Just wondering this, myself. I travel fairly frequently between US and Europe,
> and Lufthansa was recently my choice, exclusively because of this service.
> Perhaps with the interdiction of computing devices on board (have not
> travelled since the UK incident, so I am not sure if the new rules of flying
> naked affect all flights?!?) there won't - obviously - be much of a need for
> an Internet connection ...
>
The main issue, from what I read, is that too few airlines followed suit.
In particular, most American airlines were far too strapped financially to
invest in the necessary equipment.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
